Sentences with phrase «for astronomers who»

Indeed, one challenge for astronomers who want to study the properties of Kepler planets is that Kepler itself is often the best instrument to use.

And, the ALMA Regional Support Centers (ASCs) have been established respectively in Japan, U.S. and Germany to provide support for astronomers who conduct research with ALMA in East Asia, North America, and Europe.

That light, the so - called cosmic microwave background (CMB), serves as a familiar hunting ground for astronomers who seek to understand the universe in its infancy.

This suggests the model is correct, a relief for astronomers who use it to explain many phenomena.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

The finding presents a complication for astronomers who rely on the Crab nebula's steady brightness as a «standard candle» to calibrate their instruments.

Not exact matches

Of an estimated 100 million television viewers — 10 times the number of people who tuned in for The Voice's season 1 finale — most stay up past the «main event» to watch former secretaries of the U.S. government debate nuclear policy with astronomer Carl Sagan.

[radicalmoderat] It was a Catholic priest / astronomer who 1st developed the big bang theory for the creation of the Universe.

Astronomer David Sobral and his colleagues named it CR7, which stands for COSMOS Redshift 7 but is also a nod to the Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who is known to fans as CR7.

«Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event,» said UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Filippenko, who followed up the discovery with observations at the Lick and Keck observatories that proved critical to a detailed analysis of explosion, called SN 2016gkg.

Repository: American Association for the Advancement of Science Archives, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, [email protected] Creator: Moulton, F. R. Title: F. R. Moulton Files Dates: 1901 - 1948 Extent: 9 linear feet (22 Hollinger boxes) Abstract: Forest Ray Moulton (1872 - 1952) was an astronomer who served as AAAS Permanent Secretary from 1937 to 1946 and Administrative Secretary from 1946 - 1948.

For Dr. Bernie Fanaroff, a distinguished radio astronomer who until 2015 led South Africa's SKA Project and currently acts at the project's strategic adviser, science diplomacy is paramount.

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

The few astronomers who even attempted to look for them languished in obscurity, spending years in fruitless searching.

Astronomer Michael Boylan - Kolchin of the University of Texas at Austin, who wrote a commentary about the study for the same issue of Science, doesn't think it will come to that.

Le Verrier communicated to the German astronomer Johann Galle, who immediately searched for, and found, the new planet, on September 23, 1846.

Much more solid evidence for dark matter came from Vera Rubin, an observational astronomer, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s made detailed quantitative measurements of stars rotating in galaxies.

«This is a beautiful observation,» says astronomer Peredur Williams of the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, who has studied WR140 for nearly 30 years.

When it comes to extrasolar planets, smaller is better — at least for astronomers, who long to find worlds like Earth.

In particular, he called for the inclusion of historians who could caution astronomers about the potential dangers of making contact.

To a generation of science readers, he is the oddball astronomer who reportedly called a colleague a Nazi, claimed credit for everything that happened in cosmology after Einstein, and assaulted his peers in print and in person.

On the other are astronomers reveling in a grassroots priority - setting exercise — unprecedented for China — who have doubts about the ambitious design and favor something simpler.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

The idea that the universe was made just for us — known as the anthropic principle — debuted in 1973 when Brandon Carter, then a physicist at Cambridge University, spoke at a conference in Poland honoring Copernicus, the 16th - century astronomer who said that the sun, not Earth, was the hub of the universe.

That prospect sends chills down the spines of some astronomers, who hope to build even bigger space telescopes using the new technologies developed at such great cost for Webb.

«Looking around the very nearest Sun - like stars is the next logical step in the search for another Earth,» says Supriya Chakrabarti, an astronomer at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who is developing planet - imaging technologies for Project Blue.

The planet — Proxima b — was discovered by astronomers who spent years looking for signs of the tiny gravitational tug exerted by a planet on its star, after spotting hints of such disruption in 2013.

«It's very undistinguished,» says Cambridge University astronomer Andrew Fabian, who has been studying it for more than a decade.

«This is science, so null results about our nearest neighboring Sun - like stars are just as valuable as positive ones, although they don't generate a press release,» says Jared Males, an astronomer at the University of Arizona who is working on image - processing algorithms for Project Blue.

Astronomer Brad Schaefer of Louisiana State University, a maverick who unmasked the scientific inspiration for Sherlock Holmes and calculated the time of Jesus» crucifixion, is stirring things up again.

But Eric Mamajek, a University of Rochester astronomer who specializes in stellar dynamics, likens Portegies Zwart's proposal to searching for members of his own 1993 high school class from a random sampling of Manhattan thirtysomethings.

One exception was famed astronomer Carl Sagan, who appeared on the March 1983 cover for our special report «Life in Space: The Search Begins.»

«We've come to recognize that Ceres has a lot of characteristics that are intriguing for those looking at how life starts,» says Andy Rivkin, a planetary astronomer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who was not involved in the study.

Ms. Duong noted that «The Cannon is named for Annie Jump Cannon, a pioneering American astronomer who classified the spectra of around 340,000 stars by eye over several decades a century ago — our code analyses that many stars in far greater detail in less than a day.»

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Galileo knew he'd found proof for the theories of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543), who had launched the Scientific Revolution with his sun - centered solar system model.

This delay «is an incredibly anachronistic concept, in the days of «big data,» for an $ 8 - billion mission funded with public resources with a five - year life,» says Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also chaired an influential advisory committee for Webb.

«To me the real takeaway message is that Venus could have been habitable for a significant period of time, and time is one of the key ingredients to being able to originate life on a planet,» says Lori Glaze, an astronomer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who was not involved in the study.

«I got the feeling that most of the Berkeley astronomers thought my idea was a little wild,» Townes, a Nobel laureate who died in 2015, recalled in a 2006 account for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Large ripples, loops and arcs embedded in the starry outer envelope were first observed in the 1970s, and they remain an active field of study for contemporary astronomers, who use the latest telescope technology to observe the finer details of NGC 1316's unusual structure through a combination of imaging and modelling.

«In 1972 the leap second was considered a step forward,» says astronomer Dennis McCarthy, who runs the Washington - based time directorate for the International Earth Rotation Service.

Sagan had real - life inspiration for his book (and the 1997 movie of the same name): astronomer Jill Tarter, who spearheaded the search for extraterrestrial...

In particular, the Deep Impact mission blasted a crater in the comet Tempel 1 so astronomers could study the makeup of the debris, providing a «Rosetta stone» for interpreting the composition of material around stars, says Lisse, who led the Deep Impact analysis.

There is some good news on the horizon for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary geologists, and people who just like learning neat things about far - away worlds.

The case for dark matter began in the 1930s with a pair of papers by two very different kinds of geniuses, the buttoned - down Dutch astronomer Jan Oort (who also hypothesized the Oort Cloud of comets) and the explosive Swiss - American cosmologist Fritz Zwicky.

Never mind a delay of weeks or months — pity poor Thomas Hales, an American mathematician who has been waiting for five years to hear whether the mathematical community has accepted his 1998 proof of astronomer Johannes Kepler's 390 - year - old conjecture that the most efficient way to pack equal - size spheres (such as cannonballs on a ship, which is how the question arose) is to stack them in the familiar pyramid fashion that greengrocers use to stack oranges on a counter.

The second release will also contain distances and motions for all 1.1 billion stars, says astronomer Anthony Brown of Leiden University in the Netherlands, who chairs a 450 - member consortium of Gaia data analysts.

Sister scopes If SALT succeeds, it's good news for more than the astronomers who get observing time there.

For listeners who aren't familiar with him, he's called a forensic astronomer, so his specialty is finding references to the stars, whether in art, like from a painting.

Sixty years later the Vatican kayoed two astronomers who forced the point more aggressively: it burned Giordano Bruno at the stake and caged Galileo until he threw in the towel (while angling for a rematch with a mumbled «Eppur si muove»).